Civil Engineering Board Exam Quotes

#1. I feel like it's important to be flexible, particularly when I'm coming in late in the game and I'm connective tissue in the story. I'm not at the very center. It's important for me to have a certain kind of flexibility and try to help people do what they need to do.

Willem Dafoe

#2. When I wrote 'The Good Body,' I turned 40 and suddenly had this stomach. It seemed like the end of the world. Because I didn't value my body. I was constantly judging it, but I also didn't live in it.

Eve Ensler

#3. There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

Oscar Wilde

#4. Keep your shit together, I whispered to my lungs.

John Green

#5. I'm really excited to be chosen as a VEVO LIFT artist. It's a great opportunity to reach millions more music fans with my sound and let them see the real Rita.

Rita Ora

#6. I have never seen a more lucid, better balanced, mad mind than mine.

Vladimir Nabokov

#7. Maybe it should be a crime to try to see things about people they don't want you to see. (p. 4)

Carol Rifka Brunt

#8. I made myself into a poet because it was the first thing I really loved. It was an act of will.

Eileen Myles

#9. I sometimes wonder what would've happened if I'd entered the competition instead - I'd probably have come nowhere and given up on the whole fiction game.

Paul Kane

#10. I though, So this is how they send the angel. Stalled at the age when she loved you most.

Nicole Krauss

#11. Defeatism is the wretchedest of policies.

George Bernard Shaw

#12. Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them.

Yongey Mingyur

#13. Old age learns about less after a lifetime of more.

Mason Cooley